Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) executives said the company’s second-quarter 2026 results were driven by broad demand for artificial intelligence across Search, YouTube and Google Cloud, while also signaling that heavy infrastructure spending will continue as capacity remains constrained. Chief Executive Su
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CLSA started coverage of Oracle (ORCL) with a Hold rating and a $145 price target, which is among Wall Street's lowest. The call lands while Oracle sits near a 52-week low, down roughly 62% from its September peak. The rating itself is not the scary part, as a Hold rating is neutral by ...
Investing.com -- OpenAI is planning a massive data center complex in Effingham County, Georgia, near Savannah, according to The Wall Street Journal. The project underscores the extreme capital and energy demands required to power the next generation of AI. Core Project Details Power & Cost: OpenAI secured 3.2 gigawatts (GW) from Georgia Power—enough for ~2.4 million homes. It committed $20 billion locally to secure incentives, with total costs expected to exceed $30 billion at full capacity. Tim
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U.S. hyperscalers are starting to show returns on their artificial intelligence investments, but the rising cost of the buildout is taking a bite out of their free cash flow, and investors are noticing. At their current trajectory, the so-called "hyperscalers" -- Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms and Oracle -- are expected to spend more combined on capital expenditures than they generate in free cash flow by 2027, according to a Reuters analysis of LSEG consensus estimates. The data shows the companies will generate about $340 billion more in annual operating cash flow in 2027 than in 2025, but capex is expected to rise by roughly $534 billion, equivalent to about $1.57 of additional investment for every $1 of additional cash flow.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock jumped more than 7% Tuesday, July 21, as investors cheered the chipmaker's latest AI infrastructure push and looked ahead to its key AI event. On Monday, July 20, AMD introduced Helios, its first rack-scale AI system, which is expected to begin shipping later this ...
AMD has broken a chip monopoly before. In the 2000s, it took server market share away from Intel’s dominant x86 processors, forcing years of price and performance competition that reshaped enterprise computing. Two decades later, AMD is attempting a similar disruption, this time against Nvidia’s ...
Oracle (ORCL) has spent two years telling Wall Street it can build AI infrastructure faster than anyone else. A land commissioner in New Mexico just made that harder. On Monday, Oracle stock fell about 3.5% to a fresh 52-week low, trading near $122 after touching $120.03 earlier in the day. ...

Winthrop Capital CIO Adam Cooné explains how Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) second quarter earnings results would be a good "barometer" of both the market's health and broader narratives within Big Tech itself.
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Oracle could face more than $7bn in collateral requirements for a massive data centre in Wisconsin, after the state's power regulator tightened...
Oracle could face more than $7bn in collateral requirements for a massive data centre in Wisconsin, after the state’s power regulator tightened...
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AMD stock rose more than 3% on Monday.
Oracle shares are a direct focal point: the stock touched a fresh 52-week low of $121.50 on Friday, July 18. That level sits roughly 63% below Oracle's all-time high of $345.72, a collapse that has made Burry's trade one of the more consequential short calls of 2026.
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Oracle stock fell to a 52-week low Thursday as the enterprise technology giant's stock slump shows no signs of ending.
Exposure to the artificial-intelligence boom has become virtually impossible for investors to avoid. The theme hasn’t just cornered the stock market. It has systematically swallowed up corporate credit and venture capital, too.
Despite rising debt levels, Oracle’s large backlog, lower valuation compared to peers, and a sector-wide increase amid lower inflation have boosted investor sentiment.
Violent threats against artificial-intelligence companies are rising and spilling over into real-world security incidents.

IBM stock collapses 25% after the company preannounced its Q2 earnings results.
Jim Cramer pinpointed a single market variable that could either unlock NVIDIA's next surge or keep the stock in check, and it has nothing to do with earnings or tariffs.
Investing.com -- B. Riley is framing this week's second-quarter earnings reports from ASML and TSMC as "tone-setting" for the entire semiconductor and semiconductor capital equipment sector, arguing that a $880 billion surge in AI infrastructure spending has arrived roughly 12 months ahead of the firm's prior forecasts.